1994-08-06-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired August 6, 1994

Northwest Ashe High School, Warrensville, NC

1. INT: Steve & Scott Armstrong - they say it’s been a long time coming, but today is the day the Armstrong brothers finally get a chance at the tag team titles
2. Tony Anthony vs Brian Logan
3. INT:  Jim Cornette & Chris Walker - Cornette says that the Dirty White Boy may be worried about Dick Slater tonight at Fire on the Mountain, but the newest member of the Union, ‘the Ultimate Male’ Conan Chris Walker is in his future.  Footage then airs of the closing moments of a Battle Royal from Chilhowie, VA which Cornette narrates over.  He claims that the Dirty White Boy viciously attacked him from behind without provocation and he bravely stood up to him to try and fight him off, but he used every underhand tactic in the book to get the upper hand.  He was cowering back from him saying “Please Jim Cornette don’t beat me anymore,” then while his back was turned as he was trying to assist some old lady in the front row, the Dirty White Boy attacked him from behind and he slipped on a banana peel and fell to the ground.  Thankfully his newest Union member Chris Walker was there to save the day, and even though the White Boy tried to attack him from behind as well, Chris Walker is too much of a man for him.  Walker literally demolishes the White Boy until he slips on the same banana peel that he did!  The Dirty White Boy was scared though, he feared for his life and had every intent of running from the ring, when thankfully a fan out of the front row threw something in his eyes that blinded him and he wasn’t able to run away (it was actually Cornette throwing his powder in Anthony’s eyes).  Walker puts the White Boy in the Torture Rack backbreaker and Cornette says that although he might be the SMW Heavyweight champion now, when the ‘Ultimate Male’ Chris Walker gets his hands on him one more time in a title match he’ll be the ex-champion.  Chris Walker will bring the gold back to the Union and it will be the first time ever that Jim Cornette has managed the SMW Heavyweight champion! Cornette’s narrating over the video is very funny.  I have no recollection whatsoever of Walker ever wrestling in SMW so will be interesting to see how long he is around for or whether this is it? 
4. INT: Tony Anthony - he can’t wait for Fire on the Mountain tonight.  He was sitting back at home and the Dirty White Girl told him he was laying back too much, that he needed to start getting mean and nasty, that he needs to rip somebody’s eyeball out, rip a head off, and stick his fist down someone’s throat.  That’s exactly what he’s going to do to Dick Slater and as far as Jim Cornette and Chris Walker are concerned he’ll see them later in the week. 
5. INT: Rock & Roll Express - Ricky Morton says that everyone knows tonight is Fire on the Mountain, that the Rock & Roll Express are always full of surprises and they’ve got a great surprise for everyone in Johnson City.  He then gets them to put a photo of Tammy Fytch up on screen, but then replaces it with a mock-up of her without any hair (although to be fair she still looks hot).  He promises that they are going to cut someone’s hair in Johnson City, the head games are over and Tammy Fytch is going home looking like Kojak. 
6. The Thrillseekers vs Chris Hamrick & Anthony Michaels
7. INT: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies - repeat from 7/23
8. INT: The Thrillseekers - they’ve waited a long time and this week it’s their chance to finally get some revenge and get their hands on the Heavenly Bodies and Jim Cornette
9. The Thrillseekers music video - Van Halen ‘Top of the World’
10. The Gangstas vs Scott Studd & Steve Skyfire
11. INT:  The Gangstas - New Jack doesn’t care if it’s the Rock & Roll Express, The Thrillseekers or the Dirty White Boy, the Gangstas are going to get you.  If you’re familiar with the Rodney King beating, they just did the reverse to that redneck in the ring.  None of these tobacco chewers can whip him and if they think they can, get in the ring and he’ll beat them like they used to beat his ancestors.  If you hit him he’ll hit you back and the only thing they’ve got in common is that they both don’t like Martin Luther King.  He doesn’t like him because if you smacked Martin Luther King he just turned the other cheek, but if you smack New Jack or Mustafa they’ll beat you like they own you.  Sooner or later they’re going to get what they came for and the Rock & Roll Express better watch their backs because these country, tobacco chewing hog heads are going to see them get beaten like they’ve never been beaten before, you can take that to the bank.
12. INT: Jim Cornette & Bruiser Bedlam - tonight’s the night of the ‘Texas Death’ match, but before Cornette gets going he wants to hear what a couple of “real men,” the masters of the ‘Texas Death’ match, Terry and Dory Funk Jr. have to say.  Dory runs down the rules (like he did previously for the Terry Funk vs The Bullet ‘Texas Death’ match) and says that together they have never lost a ‘Texas Death’ match and you will never see the Funk brothers quit or give up in one either.  Terry is trying to reel off the names of the Armstrongs but is struggling because there is so many of them.  He finally remembers Brian and says that he is going to be on his knees begging for them to “leave his daddy alone” and for the match to stop, but he’s not going to leave him alone because this is the match their father made famous.  He had over 240 of them, never lost one and had a match against ‘Iron’ Mike Dibiase that went four and a half hours, where he received 36 stitches in his head and the police had to be called in to stop it.  Dibiase received 40-50 stitches, he went to the hospital and didn’t get out of there for weeks while his father was up and dancing the very next day.  There is one thing that a Funk has that an Armstrong or a Dibiase doesn’t, and that’s a heart.  They may not be the world’s greatest wrestlers, but they’ve got more guts and pride and the Armstrong’s are going to see their daddy stay down for a lifetime as the gravedigger is coming!  Back in the studio and Cornette gives a final run down and reminder about tonight’s ‘Texas Death’ match, before saying that it’s going to be the final chance to get his revenge on Bob Armstrong and his whole green acres assemblage!
13. INT: Bob Armstrong & Tracey Smothers & Ron Wright - Armstrong says that all the walking and talking is over with, tonight’s the night, but before he says another word he wants everyone to hear from Road Warrior Hawk himself.  We get a taped promo from Hawk before returning back to the studio.  Smothers says that the ‘Texas Death’ match might by the Funk’s speciality, but he’s got partners in Bob Armstrong and Road Warrior Hawk that’s going to take care of them.  Wright tells Cornette that he used to think he had a loaded boot, well now he’s got a walking cane loaded with lead that weighs 9.5lbs.  When he wraps it around his head there isn’t going to be anything left of him and if they throw those men he’s managing out the ring he is going to wrap it around their heads too because they’re going to walk out of there victorious and you can put that down in the record books.  Armstrong says that they are going to feel the power of the people tonight in Johnson City.  Only one man has ever beaten Terry Funk in a ‘Texas Death’ match before, so now he’s gone and surrounded himself with people, but he’s got the ‘Wild Eyed’ Southern Boy, Road Warrior Hawk and the meanest man to ever come out of the Smoky Mountain with him and tonight they’re going to finish it once and for all.
14. Brian Lee & Chris Candido (w/ Tammy Fytch) vs Steve & Scott Armstrong - with all four men in the ring and Mark Curtis preoccupied with Steve and Lee, Tammy Fytch hands her purse to Candido who nails Scott with it.  Robert Gibson runs out and gets up on the apron to try and get Curtis’ attention but Candido clobbers him too.  Ricky Morton is out next, gets hold of the purse and wallops Candido with it, however right at that moment Curtis turns round to see it and DQ’s the Armstrong’s costing them the match.

Bold matches are PWO recommended